Conceptual Balance Series (Mod)

[deccan]

Graeme Dice said:
Rain of stones for Arco and Vanheim. Raise skeletons for C'tis. Howl for Man and Pangaea.

Hmm, I was the Jotunheim player Panther referred to. Howl is a good idea. I wish I had thought of it.

I tried some things which I detailed in the Newbie Slugfest thread. Mostly, I've found that having mindless tanks doesn't work too well unless you have good mages able to kill the false horrors / mages. The mindless stuff (vine ogres, skeletons) can actually be killed by false horrors fairly reliably because of the horrors' very good combat stats and ethereality. Making chaff to tank horrors costs gems too while making false horrors doesn't cost any. And I've had my mages get scared away by false horrors (even without any horrors attacking them), thus causing the mindless chaff to dissolve.

I also watched some of Ulm's battles. I expected "Blade Wind" to work against the horrors, but they missed most of the time.

How about some more concrete advice? Panther never did need to go there far, but it seems to me that if I ever did build a significant force of mindless stuff, mages, etc., Caelum could just pop in a seraph to cast Wrathful Skies and blow things up. And just how could one defend against an air queen set to cast Wrathful Skies before attacking? *Sigh*